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KATHMANDU -- Nepalese police have filed charges against 21 Maoists including the rebel's elusive leader over the January assassination of the chief of the kingdom's Armed Police Force, court officials said Tuesday.

District police filed the case Monday at a court in Patan on Kathmandu's outskirts, charging that the 21 Maoists masterminded the killing of Krishna Mohan Shrestha, the highest-level official assassinated since the insurgency began in 1996.

The police asked for life imprisonment for 18 senior Maoists including the rebels' top leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal -- known by the alias Prachanda (The Fierce) -- and Baburam Bhattarai, the Maoist negotiator in failed peace talks this year.

Under Nepalese law, a life term requires at least 20 years in prison.

The kingdom does not have the death penalty, AFP reported.

Police called for 10 years in prison each for three lesser-ranking Maoists, Krishna Hari Sainju, Seeta Karanjit and Kamal Bista.

Shrestha, his wife Regmi and his bod